Quote Originally Posted by jimbo75 View Post
Don't you think it's embarrassing/funny/weird that their $1K top model loses more than it wins in gaming to their $220 model?

It's marketing. People are extremely stupid and actually believe that price indicates performance. They will see slides like this and think "WOW thats AMAZING". Enthusiasts know the score so why bother with it unless you are just looking to nit-pick irrelevent stuff? Believe it or not, it's a marketing teams job to make their chip look AS BEST AS POSSIBLE. That's what they are doing. Remember the 36% faster in gaming physics benchmark intel did for the new SB-E's? Or did you just deliberately forget that?

Ehm, why should that be embarrassing/funny/weird? As you probably know, most of the games out there (today) can't use more than 4 cores, in best case. And games dosen't benefit that much from CPU-power if it isn't the bottleneck - right? And what do you mean with this "People are extremely stupid and actually believe that price indicates performance"? In my point of view, price indicates performance VERY well. For example compare the i3-2100 to the i7-2600k - which have the best performance and cost the most... <--- PRICE indicate PERFORMANCE, end of that discussion!